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This extraordinary milestone in an altogether ex- traordinary career has, predictably, provided the occa- sion for an extravaganza of books, newspaper articles and television documentaries on the "Iron Lady." Less predictable in this mediafest, however, has been the attention focussed on one particular phenomenon of her reign: "Thatcher's Jews." In- deed, the Jewish contribution to the Thatcher Revolution will merit more than a foot- note in British history books. It is not altogether surpris- ing that Britain's tough and hugely successful prime minister should have close ties with the Jewish com- munity. Her parliamentary constituency is the heavily- Jewish London borough of Finchley, and political good sense would dictate that she demonstrate friendship toward Israel and work hard for Soviet Jewry. But Margaret Thatcher's affinity for Jews has transcended political expe- diency. When she talks of Soviet Jewry, the tears she weeps are genuine; more im- portant, when she addresses economic and political issues, her instincts and philosophy coincide almost precisely with the instincts and philosophy that prevail among a large section of British Jewry. "It is not so much a matter of Thatcher leading and the Jews following," one Jewish banker in London told me this week. "On the contrary, the Jews have set the pace for Thatcher." What has startled the British media is that the leader of Britain's Conser- vative Party, which newspaper columnist Ian Aitken describes as having a "more than average number of anti-Semites," has given such public expression to her affinities. Thatcher was not content, as were her predecessors, to hide her retinue of "court Jews" in government think- tanks and policy committees, carefully shielded from the public gaze. Thatcher has brought "her Jews" out of the closet. No less than five of her most senior ministers — and clo- sest advisers — have been Jews: Education Secretary Keith Joseph, Home Secretary Leon Brittan, Trade Secretary Lord Young, Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson and Scottish Secretary Malcolm Rifkind. It was a phenomenon that moved one former British Prime Minister to remark that there were more Old Estonians in Thatcher's Margaret Thatcher cabinet than Old Etonians — a reference to the ancient British school of the aristocracy which has tradi- tionally educated Britain's future leaders. Of Thatcher's Jews, only Lawson, Young and Rifkind remain in their posts: the rest have been elevated to higher, even more powerful, positions. Brittan, now Sir Leon, has become the British Commis- sioner at the European Com- munity; Joseph, now Lord Joseph and widely considered to have been the architect of the Thatcher Revolution, re- mains Thatcher's "guru," while Lord Young is being groomed for the immensely powerful job of chairman of the Conservative Party. Moreover, according to One of Us, the much-admired, much-quoted biography of the Iron Lady by journalist Hugo Young, Britain's Chief Rabbi Immanuel Jakobovitz has re- placed the Archbishop of Canterbury — head of the Anglican Church — as "the spiritual leader of Thatcher's Britain." Thatcher has made no secret of her admiration for the Chief Rabbi's up-by-the- bootstraps ethic of self-help, hard work, community ser- vice and devotion to family. Last year, she gave expres- sion to this high regard by elevating the Jewish religious leader to the ranks of nobili- ty. He now glories in the title Lord Jakobovitz — a title un- qiue for a Chief Rabbi. "The entrepreneurially suc- cessful Jew is in fact the model in many ways of That- cherite achievement,". says Jewish playwright Jonathan Miller. "The Conservative Party now underwrites the values of Jewish en- trepreneurial initiative, thrift and ingenuity." This was not always the case. Historically, British Jews were identified firmly with the mildly socialist Labor Party. It was a natural home for working-class im- migrants who not only felt that Labor policies reflected their own interests, but who also believed that Judaism's demand for social justice was best expressed by the social- democratic values Labor espoused. It helped that most of the Labor Party's leaders were also staunchly and warm- heartedly pro-Israel and well- disposed to the Jewish com- munity. Jews and the Labor Party went together, just as Jews in the United States found a natural home in the Democratic Party. Time and Thatcher broke the mold. The immigrant tailors and shopkeepers in London's impoverished East End gave birth to a genera- tion of doctors, lawyers, ac- countants and bankers. And in the past 20 years they have effortlessly relocated themselves and their life- styles in the affluent, genteel suburbs of North London. For them, the priorities are not welfare benefits, socializ- ed health and state educa- tion, but the creation of wealth. The wholesale shift into Margaret Thatcher's arms was also helped by the strident anti-Israel rhetoric, tinged with anti-Semitism, of Labor's neo-Marxist "loony left" (Labor's current "shadow" Foreign Secretary, Jewish-born Gerald Kauf- man, recently visited PLO leader Yassir Arafat in his Tunis headquarters and declared his support for the intifada). Jewish names are promi- nent in the media, the arts, show business, academia, in- dustry and the professions. A list of Britain's 200 wealthiest •